Treasures of the CSU

Bakersfield Campus

Collection:

Dust Bowl Migration Digital Archives

This collection consists of a series of fifty-seven oral history interviews that developed from the California Odyssey Project’s Oral History Program funded in 1980 by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).  The interviews focus on residents who migrated to the San Joaquin Valley from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas between 1924 and 1939. 

Contact:

Christy Gavin, Librarian
661/664-3237
cgavin@csub.edu

Web Information:

The texts of all interviews plus selected photographs are available on the web at http://www.lib.csub.edu/special/dustbowl.html. 

An index to the collection is available at http://www.lib.csub.edu/special/ interviews.html
A searchable database is in development.

Last Update:

10/14/2002 02:10 PM -0700

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